Strange. Works for me! Is bomb1.txt writeable? What system are you running on? I tried it on linux/390 and cyqwin on NT4.0.
>}On Feb 6, 15:58, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC wrote: >} Subject: run from command line >------_=_NextPart_001_01C1AF59.63C9E350 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Hello. I am trying to run a simple command to remove all the leading spaces >from a file and it just isn't working. No errors, just no results - still a >lot of leading spaces on each line. > >%perl -pi.bak -e 's/^\s+//' bomb1.txt > >any ideas? > >tim > > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C1AF59.63C9E350-- >}-- End of excerpt from Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
